All About My Mother

All About My Mother merges all of Almodóvar's noted preoccupations with women on the verge of nervous breakdowns, screwball melodramas, and flamboyant visual touches with a cohesive – and universal – story about the faces and roles we all adopt in public.

"...oddball fringes, Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar has hit the mother lode with his latest movie. All About My Mother..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother's Day

The movie is a moneymaking contrivance, just like the holiday itself

"...Diaries. Lately, however, Marshall has fixated on holiday anthologies: Mother’s Day is the third one he’s directed this decade,..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Playwright Carlo Lorenzo García Paints His Mother's Sacrifice

A Portrait of My Mother staged by Jarrott Productions, depicts maternal perseverance in loving strokes

"...Garcia knows. He has heard the stories of his mother's early life – of deprivation and cruelty at the..."

July 9, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mother!

Jennifer Lawrence on the brink of madness

"...known for reining in his madly fertile imagination and Mother!, his first true horror film, blazes new synapses in..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mother

Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean director of The Host, is back with an exquisitely rendered murder mystery fraught with psychological suspense.

"...proving himself to be an international master. Though with Mother, he strays from the popular horror fantasies on view..."

March 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Mother's Castle

"...Liotard, Didier Pain, Philippe Caubere and Nathalie Roussel. My Mother's Castle is Part Two of Robert's filmed adaptation of..."

Oct. 18, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Treat the Maternal Figure in Your Life to These Mother’s Day Events

Treat Mom to a stellar time at these local celebrations

"...Sunday, May 11, is Mother’s Day, and no matter who you call Mom, you’ll..."

May 7, 2025 Events Post by James Scott

Mother and Child

Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, and Kerry Washington lead a wonderful ensemble cast in this muzzy look into the rigors of adoption.

"...Amy Brenneman, David Ramsey and Elizabeth Peña. If the mother-child bond is the core human relationship, then this movie..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother’s Day Dining Options for Pickup & Delivery

Honor your materfamilias with some culinary goodness

"...Mother’s Day is just a week away and, especially in..."

May 2, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Mother Falcon’s Major Label Deal That Wasn’t

Mother Falcon signs to Universal and seconds later terminates the contract

"...Last week, members of Mother Falcon applied their signatures to a document every band..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Mother Falcon Takes Flight on Radiohead

‘OK Computer’ for the holidays

"...The 1997 disc also happens to be one of Mother Falcon’s very favorite works. On Sat., Dec. 29, Austin’s..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Mother

"...this, he decides to move back in with his mother – the primal source of all things intimate and..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Seven New Mother’s Day Dining Options

Because nothing’s too good for that maternal unit of yours, right?

"...list of seven more Austin restaurants serving up the Mother’s Day delivery and to-go options with taste and style...."

May 7, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mother Night

"...flag: That's the viewer's initiation into the world of Mother Night, the new film rendition of the 1961 Kurt..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mother Falcon’s Still Life

Austin's animal collective

"...There’s nothing static about Mother Falcon’s Still Life EP, not when upwards of 14..."

Feb. 15, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

My Mother Likes Women

In this mildly daffy Spanish import, a woman's grown daughters react to the news that their mother has taken a woman lover 20 years younger than she.

"...presence. Similarly, the daughters' ongoing efforts to sabotage their mother's new relationship would seem cruel if My Mother Likes..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mother's Boys

"...Curtis is painfully miscast as Jude Madigan, a wayward mother who three years previous left her husband Robert (Gallagher)..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Recommended Mother's Day Events in Austin

Celebrate that special maternal figure in your life

"...It's that time of year when we honor the mothers in our lives – whether or not they be..."

May 9, 2018 Events Post by Danielle White

Mother Falcon Tour Video

A bird’s-eye-view of Austin’s indie orchestra on the fly

"...“This past June, Mother Falcon drove over 7,500 miles through the midwest and..."

Aug. 25, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Here's Even More Mother's Day Dining Options

Whoa – some people actually love the one who birthed 'em!

"...updated. But how could we not bring these three Mother’s Day delights to your attention, as well?..."

May 5, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

DVD Watch: ‘I Killed My Mother’

A superlative take on teenage angst

"...I Killed My Mother (Kino Lorber, $29.95) pulses with so much raw, hair-trigger..."

Aug. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Interview: Celeste Bell Finds Her Mother Again in Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

Life after the germ-free adolescence

"...in 2011, daughter Celeste Bell inherited management of her mother's pioneering legacy, leading to the 2019 coffeetable read Dayglo!:..."

March 17, 2021 Screens Post by Rachel Rascoe

Mother-Daughter Dance

Anuradha Naimpally and Purna Bajekal are of two generations, but they share one timeless tradition

"...at stage right. I was too intent watching her mother, Anuradha Naimpally, the glimmering yet human figure at center..."

March 29, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Mother’s Day Events and More in This Week’s Community Events

Lots to celebrate this week around Austin

"...whatever you want (legal stuff).   – James Scott Mother’s Day Concert..."

May 10, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

The Future of Mother’s Cafe Is Pending

The vegetarian institution could permanently close in October

"...many others, the future of Hyde Park vegetarian institution Mother's Cafe & Garden is now uncertain, after four decades..."

Sept. 18, 2020 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Mother Mary Montano

The influential performance artist and onetime teacher at UT revisits Austin in the guise of a saint

"...Austin's 1992 Pride Festival), Jill Johnston, Paul McMahon, and Mother Teresa...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

Mother's Little Monster

Lynne Ramsay and Tilda Swinton on the complexities of their Columbine-inspired collaboration

"...Swinton plays Eva Khatchadourian, the mother of a teenage boy who goes on a killing..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The War on the Walls in Yuliya Lanina's Mother/Land

The UT professor processes the personal impact of the Ukrainian invasion in her new multimedia installation

"...of war hang: refugees, burning tanks, barbed wire, crying mothers, prisoners of war. There are protesters with placards, surrounded..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Second Helpings: Mother's Day Brunch, Sunday, May 13

It's your dime – make it count for your momma

"...Eddie V's Prime Seafood will celebrate Mother's Day with a special lunch menu by Executive Chef..."

May 4, 2012 Food Column

Day Trips: Mother Neff State Park, Moody

Texas’ first state park is still going strong after nearly 90 years

"...Mother Neff State Park outside of Moody started one of..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

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